"Ghost Line: Tokyo" has been released at the end of March, this thrilling, terrifying and a little psychic action role-playing game, it can be said that the theme comes with traffic, especially when the promo is released, everyone in the subway disappears instantly, with the supernatural BGM, the atmosphere is full.
Screenshot of the Ghost Line: Tokyo promo
At present, although the evaluation rate of "Ghost Line: Tokyo" on Steam is 80% "special praise", in fact, most of the reviews given by users are "travel simulators" "flashy, tasteless, and abandoned", so this concept is explosive and the supernatural game created by The father of "Resident Evil" - Shinji Mikami, let's take a look at it below.
01 Theme wins
To be honest, this game is 80% better than the theme, and when the game was released on the real machine, most players have lost interest, but there are still good sales for the excellent Shibuya street scene and folk quirks.
The sense of ambience is full
Exorcism, exorcism, and drawing symbols, these factors are associated with us, and the first picture that comes to mind should be Lin Zhengying. But in Ghost Line: Tokyo, the gorgeous battle graphics and the way they are made are blurted out, isn't this the "monk (Zen Yata)" in Overwatch. Whether it's a quick combo or a charge attack, one move after another is even more standard than the monk. And isn't the villain Banjo the evil genji! This monk Battle Genji I never expected.
The story of Ghost Line: Tokyo is set in a simple and clear setting, with a supernatural phenomenon occurring in Shibuya, where everyone disappears out of thin air, leaving only a piece of JK clothes, and then the protagonist is possessed by an unknown man to defeat the evil forces and save his sister. Although it is a bit awkward for two men to share a body, in the deserted streets of Shibuya, the combination of the asasi male protagonist and the half-hanging tough guy can also bring some joy to the journey.
Ah JK!
To say that this game is the most impressive, or JK... JK full of screen, please, this is not scary at all, it is simply heaven, although it is headless. But, so what! They even dance!
02 Who can refuse a Tanuki cat who speaks Sichuanese
In addition to various mysterious legends, "Ghost Line: Tokyo" is also very good in the scene portrayal, Shibuya scenery simulator is not a waste of time, the game is a huge text content, including ramen boxes, drink bottles on the content can be seen clearly.
The beverage font in the vending machine is clearly visible
As a result, every time I entered the store, I wanted to see what snacks I had never eaten, drinks that I had never seen; every time I tried to go into the shop with the pink peach heart sign; every time I wanted to see what comics and magazines they were reading in the house.
Gems? girl?
However, compared with such a detailed text, the entire world of Ghost Line: Tokyo will be slightly empty, and a large number of decorative buildings will disappoint people again and again, and also erase the player's desire to explore.
The new era is coming
Fortunately, although the people are gone, there are still a large number of stray cats, dogs and dogs in the streets of Shibuya for the protagonist to touch, and through the ability of kk, they can also communicate with these stray animals. However, in the game, cats and cats still want to rule the world, and dog hooks are usually more affectionate.
Trouble you get a ha
In addition to these regular animals, in "Ghost Line: Tokyo" there is also a Sichuanese-speaking Tanuki cat to give you side quests, which is almost contracted all the laughs of this game, after all, who can refuse a Sichuanese-speaking Tanuki cat.
Hallucinatory scenes
In addition, the scene performances of the main line and side lines in the game are quite amazing, and the perfect illusion scene is weird, but it also has an indescribable beauty. However, in the mission, in addition to the interesting ghost legends, the small space also creates a lot of horror atmosphere, for the timid player, the task of entering the house can turn on the music level.
03 Gorgeous visuals
The gorgeous light and shadow effects in the game complement the entire environment very well, the protagonist's attack means include wind, fire, water, melee combat, bow and arrow Yuzha and other means, three kinds of ethereal enemies after the "bursting clothes", you can use the "flip rope" technique played when you were a child to pull out the enemy's spirit core. Although there are only a few moves back and forth, the picture effect is really dazzling.
In addition, after entering the battle, all the traffic lights will turn red, which is particularly conspicuous, and even the whole picture will be shrouded in such blood, invisibly increasing the eerie feeling of the battle.
Shibuya after the rain is full of light reflection, but also become the best stage for light chasing, this game supports NVIDIA ray tracing and DLSS, there will be a big difference after opening.
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GAMING OC Magic Eagle 24G
The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GAMING OC Magic Eagle graphics card selected for this test, although it is not a game card in the strict sense, but in the case that the RTX 3080 Ti in the author's home can not achieve high frame rate operation, this flagship card king seems to be the best choice for testing.
Screen settings
The frame rate test is divided into three cases, the first is to turn off the light tracking and DLSS, only adjust all the quality options of the game to the highest; the second quality option is unchanged, turn on the NVIDIA DLSS quality mode; the third quality is unchanged, turn on the light chasing maximum and DLSS quality.
You can see that at 4K resolution, even the RTX 3090 Ti has a maximum effect of only 73 frames. With only DLSS turned on, 4K resolution can increase frame rate by 70%. And the ray tracing is turned to the highest, the frame rate directly to 57, even can not reach the level of fluency.
However, in the overall test, we adjusted the range of the flow level to the maximum, and the player can set it to 1 when playing, which will not have much impact on the picture quality.
At the same time, we also tested the frame rate of different gears of DLSS, and at 1080p resolution, the frame number was maintained at about 100 due to the zoom ratio of CPU and DLSS.
At 2K resolution, there is a gap between the number of frames in the quality mode and other modes, indicating that in this resolution and DLSS mode, the frame number has neither reached the bottleneck nor dropped significantly, and the setting has reached the optimal balance relationship.
In 4K resolution, it is more realistic to reflect the frame rate improvement relationship of several DLSS modes, if players want to play "Ghost Line: Tokyo" according to the highest picture quality, DLSS balance mode is recommended here.
Here's a look at how ray tracing actually performs in games:
RTX ON (click to enlarge)
RTX OFF (click to enlarge)
In this set of comparisons, the difference in ray tracing is more obvious. It renders more realistically how the light should have been. However, in this game, it does not appear during the day! A large number of ambient lights in the game are actually to provide lighting for the player, turn on ray tracing, although the picture is more realistic, but in some dim scenes, it will be more unclear.
At this time, it is not clear whether it is a problem with the game itself or ray tracing, or that the game screen is not as real as possible.
RTX ON (click to enlarge)
RTX OFF (click to enlarge)
In the second set of comparisons, the situation improved, and the reflection on the surface of the water was clearer. But again, you can see that the light on the building is darker, which does add a lot of depressing elements to the game.
Here's how different DLSS stops affect image quality and frame count:
Compare the original image
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At 4K resolution, we zoom in on the local details of the reflection on the surface of the water, and since the reflection itself is formed by ray-traced reflections, the gradient process from clear to blurry can be clearly seen under the DLSS calculation, but in the DLSS quality and DLSS balance mode, there is good clarity.
At the same time, the neon lights at the top of the picture can be seen that there is a more serious escape situation in the DLSS super performance mode, which is also the performance of DLSS for light boundaries, which is more difficult to locate in AI calculations.
However, for the original textures of the game screen, such as the "HSHS" letter graffiti on the farthest wall, even the DLSS super performance has a very accurate restoration ability.
In terms of frame rate improvement, the five modes are 34/59/72/85/99, and the DLSS is 74%/112%/150%/191% compared with the original image quality, which is very violent.
Compare the original image
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In this set of comparisons, the DLSS super performance mode still has the problem of blurring boundaries, but the overall effect is surprising. Including the words on the distant light signs, they are still clearly visible.
In terms of frame rate improvement, the five modes are 32/57/68/88/93, and the DLSS is 78%/113%/175%/191% compared with the native image quality, which is almost the same as the previous comparison scene.
Compare the original image
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Finally, let's compare the text on the drink in the convenience store, in this group of comparisons, up to the DLSS performance mode, there is a very good picture performance, the font outline and the boundary of the object is clear.
In terms of frame rate improvement, the five modes are 40/73/83/90/97, and the DLSS is 83%/108%/125%/143% compared with the native image quality.
In all DLSS super performance modes, it feels like the picture lacks sharpness, which is also due to the ultra-high resolution scaling, not too suitable for 4K resolution, if you change to 8K resolution, in the case of richer basic information, DLSS super performance will have a good performance.
04 Aesthetic fatigue is followed by a lack of depth
I've talked a lot about the highlights of Ghost Line Tokyo, which has few drawbacks, but it's deadly.
First of all, the most enjoyable thing about a game should be gameplay, although the word is mysterious and mysterious, but every player can feel it in their hearts.
Hallucinatory scenes
The repetitive action of the repetitive process, although the flower rope harvesting spirit core is indeed handsome, but it can't withstand the repetitive content throughout the text, even if the official setting has more melee attack routines, it will be much stronger than now. On the contrary, bounce is a more fun means in combat.
Turning off the flashlight and turning on the RTX should have more horror atmosphere
Then there is the empty world, after the excitement of entering the game to be attracted by the lights has passed, the player's desire to explore will be greatly reduced, even if "Ghost Line: Tokyo" is based on a linear narrative, all stuffed with the main line and the side line of the high-level performance effect, the overall feeling of the player is much stronger than now.
The coherence of the battle is poor, which is actually a bit contradictory to the characteristics of the game, in "Ghost Line: Tokyo", what you want to highlight is to rely on ethereal combat, but it just so happens that this way of fighting, whether it is continuous shooting or charging, has a large forward swing, and the relative lack of melee attacks, resulting in a very strong sense of lag behind the gorgeous moves.
In the case of the Recent Fire of Eldon's Ring of Law, there are not many buildings on the map. But it's an exaggeration to say that most players will basically step on every inch of the map, for fear of missing out on the ingenious design of Miyazaki's old thief.
In terms of combat, although there are not too many gorgeous moves in the cold weapon-based (except for the law master), the psychological game between the player and the boss and even the mobs, fist to flesh, knife and knife fatal pleasure, people can't stop.
But overall, "Ghost Line: Tokyo" as a small game has already achieved good results, at least in terms of environmental portrayal and theme has achieved success, if the later will launch DLC, I believe it can also enrich the existing world.